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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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More Than a Course, More Than a Method: Study Circles as a Pedagogical and Research Method Working With Asylum Seekers Across Language Barriers and Differences

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Acknowledging the limits of participatory action research, this paper explores how to include participants in the asylum process despite facing practical and ethical challenges. Concretely, the paper argues for research to align with participating organisations' knowledge, methods and resources.
Zinaïda Sluijs
wiley   +1 more source

On contrasting languages, once again [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2013
The paper deals with the contrastive approach to language study, its place in the broad field of linguistics, as well as its development from the end of the nineteenth century to the present.
Dilparić Branislava M.
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‘To Speak Shakespeare in German is Almost to Speak It in English’: Translocation of Languages on Nineteenth-Century Stages

, 2021
Berenika Szymanski-Düll
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At work in the fields : an essay into the work lives of nineteenth century English agricultural wage labouring and African American slave and freed women.

, 2005
Anne Reeves
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Nineteenth century English oratorio festivals

, 2016
Oratorio festivals were an important cultural feature of nineteenth-century English society. These massive musical events lasted for three or four days and some involved up to 4,000 musicians and 83,000 in the audience. This dissertation advances the hypothesis that the oratorio festivals, and the grand new buildings in which they were staged ...
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Broken Minds and Beaten Bodies: Cultures of Harm and the Management of Mental Illness in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-century English and Irish Prisons. [PDF]

Soc Hist Med, 2018
Cox C, Marland H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi, David Chilosi   +2 more
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Commercial Phraseology in Nineteenth Century English Textbooks for Italians

, 2007
In the nineteenth century the development of international and maritime trade led to a considerable increase in the production and consumption of English textbooks for both native and foreign novices in the business world. Correspondence has been a privileged way to conduct business transactions since the Middle Ages.
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